Ernest Hemingway Quotes

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Ernest Hemingway

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• Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Food
  • Evil
  • Personality

• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Touch

• My opinion can be completely different after a show.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Opinion
  • Show

• That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Interesting
  • Care
  • Someone

• Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing
  • Without

• Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Good
  • Today
  • Growth

• Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • America
  • Company
  • India

• I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Work
  • Sports

• Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Up
  • Time
  • Jazz

• The writer works in a lonely way.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Way
  • Lonely
  • Works

• Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Immigration
  • Ultimate

• Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Black
  • White
  • Strategy

• Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

  

  Beah Richards
  • People
  • Help
  • Education

• Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Powerful
  • Something
  • U.S.

• And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Better

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• Of what significance the things you can forget? A little thought is sexton to all the world.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World

• I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Children
  • Mother

• The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

  

  George Will
  • Car
  • Choices
  • Consequence

• It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

  

  Ernest Hemingway